A surgical technique using artificial intelligence, a camera, and dyes, which enables surgeons to "see" tumours in real-time and have a far better chance of fully removing them has been developed at UCD. "The surgical team can better perfect the right intervention to the individual patient," explains Ronan Cahill, Professor of Surgery at UCD and the Mater Hospital, who developed the new approach with Jeffrey Dalli, General Surgeon and Surgical Research Fellow at UCD. The scientific work on this technique was done at UCD and also at the Mater Hospital, with technological collaboration from IBM Research. "The technology will help surgeons better discriminate during operations what is best for each individual patient," says Mr Dalli. Some 2,800 people per year are affected by colorectal cancer in Ireland, says Cahill, who has a special interest in these cancers. When cancer is not fully removed initially it becomes much harder to cure and further operations and treatments are needed, he says.

Artificial intelligence has entered every industry, and the educational sector is no exception. The administrative staff, management, teachers, and students are all using AI in different ways to achieve similar goals. During the last few years, AI has spread its roots much wider and deeper in this sector. Markets and Markets has predicted that the global market share of AI in education is estimated to reach $3.68 billion by 2023 at a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 47%. Another platform, Market Search Engine, has predicted that the share will reach $5.80 billion by 2025.

We've all seen phishing attacks. We've actually not seen a large fraction of them, because spam filters have gotten good enough to weed out the majority. A quick glance at your junk mail folder will find a bunch of them. You'll find a range of Nigerian Princes, Lottery awards, alerts about the World of Warcraft account you don't have, and a bunch more. Those all use the classic "shotgun" or "driftnet" technique, where the scammer – or just a spammer – sends out a few million copies of the same email hoping someone will bite.

People who regularly play non-digital games such as Bingo, chess, cards or crosswords in their 70s could enjoy better cognitive ability later in life, finds study. Psychologists at the University of Edinburgh found that those who routinely played the games scored better on memory and thinking tests than non-players. The team tested 1000 people aged 70 for memory, problem solving, thinking speed and general thinking ability - the same people were tested every three years until they reached 79. People who increased game playing from ages 70 to 76 were more likely to maintain certain thinking skills as they grew older. The study also found that a behaviour change in later life could still make a difference.

In March 2011, one of the most powerful earthquakes recorded in Japan shook the country's northeastern coast. It flattened thousands of homes and buildings, destroyed infrastructure, and triggered a tsunami that wiped out whole communities. As the death toll rose above 20,000 with many more people injured and homeless, scientists and policymakers around the globe asked: How can society use technology to better prepare for, and respond to, natural disasters? How can we work faster to save lives? Leading this new thinking are researcher Yanbing Bai and a team at Tohoku University's International Research Institute of Disaster Science based in the region hardest hit by the quake.

In my five years of serving as a director and chairman in the boardroom, it's clear to me that embedding an innovative mindset in an organization has never been more important than it is right now. Cutting-edge technology such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, cloud applications and robot process automation are helping drive exponential change in the business world. Organizations that embrace this innovative technology may have a better chance at capitalizing on opportunities. You see innovation in the newcomers to the C-suite. Chief digital officer, chief data officer and chief automation officer are just a few of the emerging titles that are more common in today's marketplace.

In supervised learning, the learning algorithm is provided outcome data in advance, in the form of a pre-labeled set of instances. It is from this set that the algorithm is expected to learn what to do when it encounters future, previously unseen instances. Classification is a form of supervised learning. As an example, take the biological taxonomic hierarchy. Organisms are grouped into successfully more specific ranks of domain, kingdom, phylum, etc.

While drunks tweets are nearly always mortifying the morning after, researchers say they could actually help improve your health - and your city. Researchers analysed 11,000 tweets of New Yorkers, using them to build up a map of when and where they were sent. They hope the'drunk maps' of major cities to help offer health and safety advice. Researchers used thousands of tweets from the area and filtered them out by using alcohol-related words to find where people were drinking and if they had one too many when they sent a post. The team collected 11,000 geotagged tweets sent during the year up to July 2014 from New York City and from Monroe County.